RUSS COMPUTERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02385868
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: February 21, 2025
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2025
• Publication Date: March 1, 1972

Approved for Release: 2025/01/15 CO2385868
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� A new way to destroy all internal political,
dissent in Soviet Russia could be furthered
by the proposed sale of sophisticated Ameri-
can.computers to the Communists. .
Defense Department staffers who have op-
hosed the sale on security grounds now hope
that new proof of the Russians' use of com-
puters to suppress dissent will prevent the
transaction. .
� A report by Victor Zorza, expert on Soviet
affairs, and evidence gathered by the Ceztul
Intelligence Agency now substantiates what
adwitis to most�Americans like a horror mov-
ie. Zorza has written that the full records of
any Soviet citizen's psychological character-
istics and actions "could be used to devise an
�,�,- approach that would quickly persuade him
that his best interests require him to conform
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to the political guidance of his spiritual ad-
. viser at the KGB (the Soviet secret police)."
I Coupled with mood-altering drugs, the com-
puters become a tool for suppressing dissent.
:Most Americans heard little of the Declara-
tion. of Frankfurt a. year ago. This was a
statement from a conclave of Bishops of the
Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia.
It revealed that "Religious people and those
citizens vindicating. their right to think other-
wise than in terms of party directions have
been whisked away to so-called 'special psy-
chiatric hospitals.' Subjected to drugs, they
are numbed and can no longer defend, their
faith."
- The U.S. has been too slow to react to
urging from other parts of the world to de-
nounce the new Russian weapon against its
people. Most Western governments have been
, supportive of a move by the Canadian Psy-
chiatric Association asking the World Health
Organization of the United Nations to speak
out against the Russian mind-bending proj-
ect.
Our foot-dragging is difficult to rationalize.
The Russian practice is repugnant and vio-
lates all our American political tenets. Aiding
the Russian government by furnishing corn- :
puters which will make even more mind-
twisting pOssible would be totally unethical.
� Neither money nor possible offending of the
Russian government are justifiable excuses.
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Summary: Some may argue the Russians
,simply will buy computers elsewhere. Let
them. We shall not have contributed to a
downfall of integrity.
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